Tag Archives : comparative religions

Evaluating Islam

Above — The Kaaba (“Cube”), Islam’s Holiest Site, in the Sacred Mosque of Mecca, Saudi Arabia “In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful. Praise be to Allah, the Ch...

Evaluating Buddhism

An Indian Elephant and Three Buddhist Monks Walk Together   Introduction This is another of our Essays that evaluates an important world religion or spiritual path. Our aim has been to compare ea...

Buddhism vs. Transcendentalism

–J.X. Mason’s Blog Post of 7-5-22— J.X. Mason is the author of www.ContinuingCreation.org   The Buddha never saw that one day, science and technology would be able to solve much...

Pros & Cons of Taoism & Zen

I have written evaluations of several of the World’s great religions, and I plan to write about more of them.  In the evaluations, I try to list the Strengths & Shortcomings of each religio...

Evaluating Taoism and Zen

An Imagined Portrait of Lao Tzu-tzu, the Founder of Taoism    Evaluating Taoism and Zen “Constantly regard the universe as one living being, having one substance and one soul; and observe ...

Forerunners to Our Path & Practice

Deism, Process Theology, Stoicism, Freemasonry, Positivism, Secular Humanism, Existentialism, Skepticism, Pragmatism, Unitarianism, and Transcendentalism: These are the theologies and philosophies tha...

Evaluating Hinduism

The Hindu God Shiva performs his “Dance of Creation, Destruction, & Creation Anew”   Evaluating Hinduism Hinduism is an unlikely mix of abstract theology and a huge cast of wild a...